http://www.bogost.com/ Official website of Ian Bogost (a videogame theorist, critic, and designer), including books, games, writing, teaching, speaking, and blog en Copyright 2013 Sat, 15 Jun 2013 13:08:34 -0500 http://www.sixapart.com/movabletype/ http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss read more) ]]> http://www.bogost.com/blog/one_thing_materialism_hasnt_ev.shtml http://www.bogost.com/blog/one_thing_materialism_hasnt_ev.shtml blog philosophy Sat, 15 Jun 2013 13:08:34 -0500 read more) ]]> http://www.bogost.com/writing/moocs_and_the_future_of_the_h2.shtml http://www.bogost.com/writing/moocs_and_the_future_of_the_h2.shtml writing Sat, 15 Jun 2013 10:04:36 -0500 read more) ]]> http://www.bogost.com/writing/moocs_and_the_future_of_the_hu.shtml http://www.bogost.com/writing/moocs_and_the_future_of_the_hu.shtml writing computing education politics Fri, 14 Jun 2013 11:17:00 -0500 read more) ]]> http://www.bogost.com/blog/announcing_object_lessons.shtml http://www.bogost.com/blog/announcing_object_lessons.shtml blog books culture philosophy writing Sat, 08 Jun 2013 12:59:39 -0500 read more) ]]> http://www.bogost.com/blog/exploded_ontography.shtml http://www.bogost.com/blog/exploded_ontography.shtml blog philosophy photography Mon, 03 Jun 2013 21:08:32 -0500 read more) ]]> http://www.bogost.com/blog/of_questionable_value.shtml http://www.bogost.com/blog/of_questionable_value.shtml blog education Sun, 02 Jun 2013 11:50:14 -0500 read more) ]]> http://www.bogost.com/blog/fortunate_people_say_no.shtml http://www.bogost.com/blog/fortunate_people_say_no.shtml blog philosophy politics Sun, 26 May 2013 12:21:40 -0500 read more) ]]> http://www.bogost.com/blog/shillville.shtml http://www.bogost.com/blog/shillville.shtml blog cynicism education games Sat, 25 May 2013 09:39:30 -0500 read more) ]]> http://www.bogost.com/blog/the_electronic_book_circa_1995.shtml http://www.bogost.com/blog/the_electronic_book_circa_1995.shtml blog books computing Thu, 16 May 2013 12:28:53 -0500 read more) ]]> http://www.bogost.com/blog/the_walled_kindergarten.shtml http://www.bogost.com/blog/the_walled_kindergarten.shtml blog Apple computing education Tue, 14 May 2013 13:11:04 -0500 read more) ]]> http://www.bogost.com/blog/seeing_ultraviolet.shtml http://www.bogost.com/blog/seeing_ultraviolet.shtml blog philosophy Mon, 13 May 2013 21:07:32 -0500 read more) ]]> http://www.bogost.com/blog/object_lessons_is_coming.shtml http://www.bogost.com/blog/object_lessons_is_coming.shtml blog books writing Wed, 08 May 2013 12:41:11 -0500 read more) ]]> http://www.bogost.com/blog/work_with_me_on_tinkering_plat.shtml http://www.bogost.com/blog/work_with_me_on_tinkering_plat.shtml blog computing education Georgia Tech Sun, 05 May 2013 11:43:32 -0500 read more) ]]> http://www.bogost.com/blog/doing_things_is_okay.shtml http://www.bogost.com/blog/doing_things_is_okay.shtml blog videogames Fri, 03 May 2013 13:25:14 -0500 The Gameful World — My short essay Gamification is Bullshit was a very widely read provocation, but it was never meant to be a complex argument. I've finally written a longer, more detailed version of that argument in an article titled "Why Gamification Is Bullshit." It will appear in Steffen P. Walz and Sebastian Deterding's forthcoming collection The Gameful World: Approaches, Issues, Applications, to be published by MIT Press later this year. But I have to admit, I've been anxious making all of you wait for it. So I thought I'd post occasional excerpts. Here's one: Given the long tradition of business intelligence in... 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